· Private foundation
Ralph Errington Charitable Fdn Michael Backer Terry Zuckerman Ttes
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE | $100,000 |
| KENILWORTH ROTARY CAMP SCHOLARSHIP | $50,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NJ | $40,000 |
| TRINITAS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE BASS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TWP OF LIVINGSTON SENIOR SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +78%- PMPaper Mill Playhouse5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +94%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $85k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- CRCristo Rey Newark High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $70k
- FVFROST VALLEY YMCAone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See Schedule OThe mission of Temple Health Physicians, P.C. is to provide greater access to high-quality cancer and health care services to communities in New Jersey. Additionally, the organization operates to support the charitable…
To meet the healthcare needs of our community by providing cost-effective quality care. to educate present and future generations of healthcare providers. to provide a continuum of regional tertiary care. please refer to the organization's…
To improve the health and well-being of the populations we serve in urban and suburban communities.
Saint barnabas medical center, a non-sectarian healthcare institution, will pursue the delivery of primary, secondary, and tertiary health services while consistently meeting the highest quality of care and meeting our customers'…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
We, trinity health of the mid-atlantic region and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy catholic medical center of southeastern…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinitas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITAS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FIRST AID SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ej Grassmann Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ralph Errington Charitable Fdn Michael Backer Terry Zuckerman Ttes funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Center for Hope Hospice Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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